Education as a Conversation

I have always ruled out using Blogger with students due to the “Next Blog” (random blog) on the top nav bar.  I just discovered a website that gives you directions on how to remove it by opening the template and typing:

#b-navbar {   height:0px;   visibility:hidden;   display:none   } 

right above the style end tag

It worked! 

However, I still like my edublogs better as I can put tags (categories) on my posts and have a list of them on the side.  I also can create separate pages (see tabs under the blog title) for other content.

On March 1st, I had the pleasure of spending the day with Susim Munshi and Susan Switzer at their Read, Write, and Blog workshop. They have a wonderful support website using 21publish.com at http://learn2blog.21publish.com/ Excellent blog examples are included under the Blog List drop down menu – see “Learning from Reading Blogs” and “Learning from Participation in Blogs“. Also under the Blog List, are some Case Studies. These are scenerios which will be very familiar to teachers. Questions are listed below each to guide the teacher in utilizing blogs with a more constructivist approach to teaching and learning. We then got the opportunity to explore a free blogging publishing community called 21publish. Individual student blogs can be set up under a main umbrella blog like the North River School Blogs or topics for students to comment on like the Learn2Blog site.

Thanks for a wonderful day Susim and Susan.